Google Cloud Datalab Beta

Google has launched a beta of Cloud Datalab, a new data visualization service, that you can use to analyze raw data and to explore, share, and publish reports. The web-based service that combines elements of Google BigQuery and Google Cloud Storage with data science ecosystems built around IPython, and takes care of the integration between the products. Cloud Datalab is an interactive tool that you can use to create that explores, transforms, visualizes and processes data in Google Cloud Platform. You can combine code Python, SQL and JavaScript (at least JavaScript for expressing BigQuery User Defined Functions). Datalab also lets you build and test data pipeline for deployment to BigQuery, and create, tune, and deploy Machine Learning models. Writing about the beta on the Google Cloud Platform blogspot, Greg DeMichellie, Director of Product…